Hello Everyone,
This week’s Book of the Week features an enjoyable read for every person who has ever followed a newspaper column and not only enjoyed its entertaining content; but felt united with its fellow readers and contributors.
However, this is not just any ordinary newspaper column. The Miranda column, featured in Heartbeat of the Country , is a column which spanned and united women across Australia for seventy years through the very popular Weekly Times newspaper, and instilled in women a sense of genuine placement in a man’s world; and an emphasis on the important role they played.
The Miranda column was a voice for all women; but especially for isolated country women who would not see another woman for months at a time; and therefore miss out on the enjoyment, companionship and support such a friendship offers.
The Miranda column was a hugely successful and popular column uniting women across the nation in times of loneliness, financial hardship, motherhood stresses, war; and many other numerous times of struggle in the lives of battling, but formidable women.
Heartbeat of the Country also depicts a valuable and informative insight into Australian history; yet it doesn’t simply do this by reciting fact in a monologue textbook manner; it does so in a factual, first-hand look at how life really was then for the people; from the people who were literally living it.
Heartbeat of the Country is a step back in time to a way of life sadly lost to us all in these modern, busy times. However, here at Grafton TAFE Library, we are endeavouring to bring back a little of those times, and this Book of the Week feature is just a small hint of what’s to come.
So stay tuned to this space and expect new big things relating to the good old times!
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